Comments on: It’s official, Lakers Ron Artest suspended for Game 3http://nba.nbcsports.com/2011/05/05/it%e2%80%99s-official-lakers-ron-artest-suspended-for-game-3/
Basketball - NBC SportsFri, 09 Dec 2016 15:12:48 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: phatgaryhttp://nba.nbcsports.com/2011/05/05/it%e2%80%99s-official-lakers-ron-artest-suspended-for-game-3/comment-page-1/#comment-40019
Mon, 09 May 2011 01:35:04 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=23034#comment-40019Thank you davidly, for a balanced and well-presented argument. Most frustration is from seeing game outcomes dictated by physical and mental intimidation rather than basketball skill. My paint brush was too wide. Thank you, again.
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Sun, 08 May 2011 07:15:41 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=23034#comment-39890That’s fair enough. I understand your frustration completely. And if you’re REALLY willing to treat all the flagrant twos that have occurred in these playoffs, I would agree with you (that includes all the flagrant ones which should have been twos).

But what I personally don’t think is fair and that maybe, just maybe, you are not taking into consideration is:
The number of plays where someone takes cheaps shot on par with this one are a lot greater than catches the eye (camera). There an awful lot of folks out there who don’t realize just how dirty all the top defenders are. If you were to enact this punishment on all of them equally, there would be no defense.

Folks like to see Artest as some kind of bogeyman. By the standards you set forth here, phatgary, there is at least one Wallace that should have received this treatment for what he contributed to the “malice in the Palace”. Unfortunately, though, having doled out the proper punishment in that case would not have contributed to the Osama bin Artest story-line.

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Sat, 07 May 2011 00:39:04 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=23034#comment-39778I am not certain that you all understand my frustration. I don’t think a 1-game suspension cuts it. He should be gone for the rest of the season – whether it’s the 1st game or the playoffs. Tell him we’ll consider reinstatement during the offseason. What happened shows not just a lapse in sportsmanship, but a complete void of sportsmanship. Now you have a precedent I think fits. If there are any other thugs who can’t comprehend this – get ’em gone…and quick. Then we’ll talk sport and basketball. Right now we need police and attorneys just to go to a freakin professional contest. That doesn’t impart much enjoyment in my opinion.
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Fri, 06 May 2011 20:11:07 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=23034#comment-39763I agree with you 100% passerby. This guy is one of those “haters” that probably got beat up by the captain of the basketball team, OR, better yet got cut from the team himself! What kind of a stupid comment was that to make? It was unfounded and racist. It’s that kind of thinking that has this country in the state that it’s in right now!

WE WATCH THE NBA (like any other sport) TO SPECTATE AS THE BEST ATHLETES IN THE WORLD COMPETE FOR OUR ENJOYMENT!! If you don’t like it “phatgary” stay off of websites relative to it!

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Fri, 06 May 2011 20:01:54 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=23034#comment-39762This is for “phatgary”, where in the world of biggots/racists did you get your info about NBA players being “thugs/bullies/gang members”?? You sound like every other loser that can’t jump, run, or stand BLACK MEN criticizing the NBA. As if the NFL, NHL, or MLB doesn’t employ ex-offenders, or current law-breakers! You sound realy racist to me, and others I’m sure. Is your personal beef wit NBA players at all relative to the fact that Blacks dominate the sport? Hummm, sounds a lil KKK’ish to me. Would you be so critical if YOU, or others that looked like could play basketball as well as the majority of the All-Stars in the NBA? Nevermind, don’t answer that, you already showed your horns when you made that stupid, unfounded, and racist comment.
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Fri, 06 May 2011 16:26:37 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=23034#comment-39753Satiricals*!!!!😦
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Fri, 06 May 2011 16:25:27 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=23034#comment-39751I don’t think what he did constitutes a whole playoff suspension. That’s going a little too far. I mean they didn’t suspend Perkins for holding Nene in a choke hold. There is a complete grey area in the NBA. And they have already set a precedent in the playoffs in Orlando that a one game suspension is punishment for these kind of things.
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Fri, 06 May 2011 16:10:50 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=23034#comment-39748Makes a lot of sense? Apparently you’re taking me way to seriously. Why is it that the people that don’t ever post on here on a regular basis come into some posts and make it personal?

By the way, Denver is way more of a tequila shots city. Redbull and Vodka is way played out, and besides… Isn’t that what everyone calls the Staples Center? The Redbull Vodka capital of the world?

Besides when have you ever came to a Denver game? We’re pretty humble. You just overthink my satricals.

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Fri, 06 May 2011 15:37:31 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=23034#comment-39747a denver comment that makes a lot of sense, especially if you’ve gone to a game there…complete nba moronic fanbase. drink more redbull and vodka, sonny.
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Fri, 06 May 2011 14:41:05 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=23034#comment-39745I think they mean tall, in addition to having a particularly long wingspan. I agree that it sounds weird. But sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Unless it’s Isiah Thomas, when he used to call games and would say, “Luc Looooongley.”
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Fri, 06 May 2011 11:05:45 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=23034#comment-39731Can we get a moratorium on basketball players being called “long”? What is wrong with “tall”? Calling players “long” or “longer” sounds like Freudian slips on the part of sportswriters.
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Fri, 06 May 2011 10:35:07 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=23034#comment-39730It was unsportsmanlike, but I wouldn’t call it hateful or violent. He knew as soon as he did it that he f’d up, which is why he tried to play it off. Busted. The punishment fits the crime in this case.
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Fri, 06 May 2011 04:51:36 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=23034#comment-39717Let’s not go overboard here. Just because someone has a rough upbringing doesn’t necessarily make them a thug. There are a lot of guys in the league who have matured and are great sportsman. Artest is not one of them.

And we care about pro basketball because it’s the most talented players in the world playing to decide who the best team is. You wouldn’t be here commenting if you didn’t care.

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Fri, 06 May 2011 01:52:10 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=23034#comment-39710cleareye1 sums it up perfectly. Many of the players behave like thugs on and off court. If the NBA wants to clean up the league they need to take out the trash.
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Fri, 06 May 2011 01:31:58 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=23034#comment-39709Passerby see my reply to my post. Thanks.
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Fri, 06 May 2011 01:27:38 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=23034#comment-39708Yeah Passerby, I’m a total Lakers fan. CHECK YOUR FACTS.
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Fri, 06 May 2011 00:56:00 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=23034#comment-39703An NBA court is not a cage where Artest can practice mixed martial arts. Ron Artest is a petulant child in a man’s body. He’s more than just an embarrassment; he’s a thug whose violent acts are repulsive to anyone with an IQ above 65. I read in another blog stating that his clothesline act was just a “hard foul.” That’s utterly stupid BS. Artest wasn’t trying to block a shot or steal the ball or intercept a pass–he just threw his forearm into Barea’s face as Barea was dribbling 75 feet from the basket. A six-foot, seven-inch man struck a man almost a foot shorter than he for no reason except Ron was upset and frustrated that his team was about to lose.

For all his attempts to rehabilitate his image as someone suffering from mental illness, Artest has repeatedly showm how badly suited he is to play professional sports. He is the antithesis of a good sportsman. He should be suspended for the remainder of the playoffs at the very least, required to attend anger management counseling, and, if it were possible, required to attend classes on what being an adult is all about.

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Fri, 06 May 2011 00:33:20 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=23034#comment-39702Artest has been given too many opportunities to see the light. Cash him out.
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Fri, 06 May 2011 00:03:53 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=23034#comment-39698Many NBA players are only gang members, thugs and bullies who have grown up playing basketball. This incident is an example: if the smaller man is beating you at the game….take him out with a blow to the face. Then walk away as though everything is OK. Then protest when the penalty is imposed. I am surprised anyone really cares about pro basketball or pays to see these thugs. How many people in the league have a clue as to what “sportsmanship” might be?
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Thu, 05 May 2011 23:32:04 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=23034#comment-39692he is Puerto Rican, Borricua
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